On Sun, Dec 10, 2023, 12:47 PM Curt <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2023-12-10, Gary Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 2023-12-10 12:24, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 05:09:15PM -0000, Curt wrote: > >>> On 2023-12-10, Andrew M.A. Cater <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> "Now" is almost exactly Sun 10 Dec 16:55:43 UTC 2023 > >>> You mean in the Zulu Time Zone (as I am all at sea)? > >> Use "date -u" to see current UTC time. That should be sufficient to > >> let you know how long it has been since Andrew's "now". > >> > > You're getting too complicated. The date stamp on his e-mail will > > display the correct local time (as you have set it) so I can see that he > > wrote it 30 minutes ago. That relative time is universal across time > zones. > > > > > > It is the notion of simultaneity itself (the now of now) that is > relative rather than universal. >
I thought metaphysics was off-topic for this group. Moderators!! :-) >
